Establishing a Voice Trading Engine for a Distributed Ecosystem

Establishing a Voice Trading Engine for a Distributed Ecosystem

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As the financial industry continues to transition towards a predominantly virtual environment, institutional traders need to be able to easily access the right tools to stay connected and enhance workflow efficiencies. In the fifth episode of Cloud9’s podcast series, Cloud9’s Chief Innovation Officer and Co-founder Leo Papadopoulos, and Chief Operating Officer Jim Miller, examine what voice trading capabilities institutional traders must have in a distributed workplace and how a cloud-based platform can provide a more secure, mobile and accessible ecosystem.

Navigating Distributed Compliance in Today’s Institutional Landscape

Navigating Distributed Compliance in Today’s Institutional Landscape

The last year has been a whirlwind for everyone. And while regulators such as the CFTC have offered temporary relief and extensions to certain voice trading and record-keeping rules in the increasingly virtual environment, distributed compliance parameters still remain a pivotal element of the institutional landscape. A distributed workforce is not a new concept in any industry, including capital markets. However, a lot of firms continue to struggle with how to address the challenges they’ve faced in the process, particularly in a shifting market ecosystem. While every company needs to employ remote working capabilities, there’s no question that it is difficult to manage and can create potential compliance challenges.

Shifting to the Cloud

With financial institutions acclimating to a longer-term remote strategy and some even beginning to employ permanent work-from-home policies, there has been not only an increased appetite for the cloud – but an increased need. The cloud has become particularly important in enhancing flexibility and redundancy.  For the first time, firms are more open and comfortable allowing their data – including voice and communication data and disaster recovery solutions – to reside in the cloud. With users that traditionally work both on and off the trading floor distributed across numerous locations, the cloud has become the easiest place to store and retrieve data. While compliance vendors have typically offered on-premise solutions, cloud-based support is still in its nascent stages. This has opened the door for compliance providers to offer new and more sophisticated products. Conversely, customers need to be asking whether or not compliance vendors can provide both on-prem and cloud-based support.

Open and Interoperable

At Cloud9, one of our goals has been to establish a community of specialists that collectively addresses the integration, efficiency and mobility challenges that firms have faced in the virtualization of our industry. The key is ensuring that vendors are interoperable to enable efficient workflows and avoid performance issues for customers. The same goes for voice trading APIs, which are becoming increasingly more sophisticated to align with the need for greater flexibility in the institutional trading community. Each company will format their data within APIs a bit differently. As a result, if you’re a compliance vendor for instance, you need to be able to normalize data before it can be used. 

Industry-wide Data Standard

This raises the question of whether or not an industry-wide standard for data is necessary. For now, it’s not imperative but as data sets become larger and more complex, this may be something that we see the industry transition to, especially as teams become more dispersed and compliance oversight becomes more challenging. To learn more about distributed compliance and how to navigate these challenges in our shifting landscape, please sign-up for Cloud9 and EY’s Distributed Compliance Virtual Roundtable on April 8. You can secure your spot by emailing cloud9@paragonpr.com For more information on Cloud9’s voice trading and cloud solutions, please contact us at sales@c9tec.com 

Cloud9 and EY to Host Virtual Roundtable on Distributed Compliance in Today’s Institutional Trading Ecosystem

Cloud9 and EY to Host Virtual Roundtable on Distributed Compliance in Today’s Institutional Trading Ecosystem

Cloud9 Technologies and EY have announced a series of virtual roundtables that will examine compliance, data management and cloud deployment best practices for the institutional community.

The first of these virtual events will take place on Thursday, April 8 at 10 am ET and will examine the following issues:

  • The shifting approach to compliance in what has become a more virtual environment comprised of a distributed workforce
  • Shifting dynamics of voice trading and data capture from a compliance perspective
  • The growing importance of establishing a robust community of partners
  • Differences in the way asset managers, banks and brokers need to approach the distributed compliance process
  • Key developments that will drive an efficient compliance process in an ongoing virtual landscape

The event will feature the following panelists:

  • Moderator: Gráinne McNamara, Principal, EY
  • Matt Smith, CEO, SteelEye
  • Phil Fry, VP of Product Strategy, Verint
  • Leo Papadopoulos, Co-founder & Chief Innovation Officer, Cloud9 Technologies

If you’re interested in attending the virtual event, please reach out to cloud9@paragonpr.com to reserve your spot.

Cloud9 Named Best Cloud-Based Trading Data Management Solution

Cloud9 Named Best Cloud-Based Trading Data Management Solution

LONDON – February 25, 2021 – Cloud9 is excited to announce that the Company has been named Best Cloud-Based Trading Data Management Solution at the 2021 TradingTech Insight European Awards.

The TradingTech Insight European Awards are hosted by A-Team Group and are designed to reflect the evolution and challenges facing the European institutional marketplace. They recognize the best in trading technology and services for capital markets and winners are recognized across 38 categories focusing on trading infrastructure, trading technology, and data solutions.

“This year has shined a bright light on many of the challenges institutions have faced as the industry continues to shift to a more virtual environment,” said Jerry Starr, CEO & Co-founder of Cloud9 Technologies. “We’re honored to be recognized for the great work our team has done to address these issues and empower trading capabilities in this new age of virtual accessibility.”

This is the second consecutive year Cloud9 has been recognized in this category at the TradingTech Insight European Awards, after the Company’s integrated voice trading partnership with IPC was rewarded in 2020.

Here is the full winner’s list from this year’s awards program.